Pics of Russian aircraft monuments.

In the meantime, I’ve been succesful in uploading some pics to the site: http://www.aviamonuments.ru/search?photoman=Han+de+Ridder

I used http://www.google.com/translate_t for translating from English to Russian. Might not be perfect, but at least they understand what I’m talking about…..:o

Tillerman.

Not too sure if this’ll help ….

Аа – A
Бб – B
Вв – V
Гг – G
Дд – D
Ее – Je (ye)
Ёё – Jo (yo)
Жж – Zh (Like the s in leisure)
Зз – Z
Ии – I (ee)
Йй – J (y)
Кк – K
Лл – L
Мм – M
Нн – N
Оо – O
Пп – P
Рр – R
Сс – S
Тт – T
Уу – U (oo)
Фф – F
Хх – Kh (hard H, like the ch in Loch)
Цц – Ts
Чч – Ch
Шш – Sh
Щщ – Shch (like a hard Sh)
ъ – “ (hardens the consonant before it)
ы – Y (like a subtle uy)
ь – ‘ (softens the consonant before it)
Ээ – E
Юю – Yu
Яя – Ya

Moscow Москва
St Petersburg Санкт-Петербу́рг

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Well,from first column you choose aircraft model.
The first cyrilic are ANT type,then Aist-2,An-2/10/12….,Be,Bi,IL,Ka,L,La,M,Mi,MiG,Pe,Tu,Su and Yak.This are the more famous.”Ракетоноситель Восток” is Vostok rocket.”Сопвич Триплан” is Sopwith triplane.There is various rockets such as Х-20M(Kh-20M),Х-22(Kh-22),KC-1(KS-1),KCP-11(KSR-11),КСС(2) “Сопка”(KSS(2) Sopka).

From the second column you choose country.
Armenia
Belarus
Bulgaria
Vietnam
Germany
Georgia
Kazakhstan
China
Latvia
Moldova
Poland
Russia
USA
Ukraine
Czech Republic

The third one is for city.They are too many to translate,so if you want particular one just ask.

Cyrillic tips!

Thanks for the link, Tillerman, I have been fascinated by Russian aircraft and space rockets for years but there are more opportunities now to check out their interesting types post-communism.

Steve, it’s easier to identify makes just by knowing the first letter equivalents, which are shown under the heading ‘Common letters’ in Wikepedia (link below). Print them out for reference.

For example the Russian (Cyrillic) ‘C’ is our ‘s’ sound so, only one aircraft type begins with S and that is Sukhoi! Their ‘T’ is still ‘t’ and the only type is Tupolev and so on. Check the model number after, for example Tx-22 is a Tupolev 22 (I have used an ‘x’ for convenience).

By the way, I (accidentally!) found another web page on this site (see below) which has useful links at top right. Click on each one, and it has many lists of aircraft to click on. The Vostok is there too.

Hope that helps!

Bri – not the Russian expert 😉

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet

http://www.aviamonuments.ru/archive/

I’d be a lot easier to navigate if it was in English also